Monon-2 version 16 route, Template Options

[dgionet]

Hello to all,

Prior to the route release this week-end, I have received a request to have a template made for the route.

I no one else steps forward, I am ready to take on a look at the route to consider making one.

It will be a massive enterprise with at least three Railroads to tackle with, the Monon, the MILW and the NYC. This one is expected to take a lot of time to complete.

Here are the first photos captured of this amazing route. Congratulations Rick for a well done job!





Will wait for replies
Thanks

[dgionet]

Hello to all,

A new template has been added to the existing ones: handling unpowered diesel engines and passenger cars inside the Lafayette facilities. It includes work in the car and engine shops, the paint shop, the fuel track. RIP tracks are the source tracks and some storage tracks will be used as final destination.

Rick Franzosa, from BLW/ZT, had handed me what is expected to be part of an oncoming bonus set for the BLW/ZT Monon sets. A big thanks Rick, much appreciated.

According to Rick's information unless mistaking, the SW1 was the original diesel switcher purchased by the Monon, and they used it as a shop switcher toward the end of its career.

I had some coupling issues which took a few days to find out the proper way to uncouple from the cars. The unpowered engines were created with Route Riter and do not cause copyright issues since no files were modified from the original ones. These unpowered engines filenames are preceeded with a $ sign. The same was done for the Stowe Northern route earlier this year.

Pending release of the bonus set, I may temporarily change the player engines to another type of engine (if the template package is released prior to the bonus set) and once the bonus release is done, the user may use the original CON file which contains the SW1 to overwrite the temporary CON file.

I have succeeded to complete its first SLG-generated activity and the following shots include also some of earlier attempts.



















more to come